Curious Cases and Amusing Actions at Law: Including Some Trials of Witches in the Seventeenth Century

by Witchcraft Trials (NA)

• ISBN13: 9781584770121
• ISBN10: 1584770120
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: Lawbook Exchange Ltd

Summary

[Trials]. [Witchcraft]. Curious Cases and Amusing Actions at Law Including Some Trials of Witches in the Seventeenth Century. Toronto: The Carswell Co., Limited, 1916. vii, 234 pp. Reprinted 2000, 2010 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584770121. Hardcover. New. $39.95 * Fascinating and entertaining tales of cases and trials from the Birmingham Court of Requests (such as "The meek husband and the bouncing wife," "The servant and his two masters"); a witchcraft trial held before Sir Matthew Hale, 1664, taken down by an attendant at the proceedings; and six New England Salem witchcraft trials from 1692.

Table of Contents

Part I. CASES IN THE BIRMINGHAM COURT OF REQUESTS
Introduction	1	(10)
The Pleasures of Matrimony	11	(3)
The Sturdy Club	14	(3)
The Carrier	17	(4)
The Executor	21	(1)
A Judge may Quit the Line of Justice	22	(1)
Match a Knave	23	(2)
The Second-hand Wife	25	(3)
Defective Powers	28	(1)
A B C	29	(2)
The Servant and his Two Masters	31	(2)
Warning	33	(7)
The Meek Husband and the Bouncing Wife	40	(3)
The Lovers	43	(2)
Landlord and Tenant	45	(3)
Queer Aspects	48	(4)
The Privilege of a Cockade	52	(1)
The Power of Beauty	53	(3)
The Hundred-Pound Note	56	(4)
The Merchant and the Button-Maker	60	(6)
The Fee	66	(2)
The Reckoning	68	(3)
A Quarter too Late	71	(2)
The Bastard	73	(2)
``The Tempest,'' as it was acted by their Majesties Servants at the Theatre in Birmingham	75	(2)
The Female Contest	77	(3)
The Hundred-Tongue Club	80	(3)
Character	83	(3)
The Name Unknown	86	(2)
The Female Note	88	(1)
The Widowed Wife	89	(2)
The Bench Stormed	91	(3)
The Cost and many Owners	94	(2)
The Cloud of Witnesses	96	(2)
A Club Conducted without a Man	98	(2)
The Stamp	100	(2)
The Stumbling Wife	102	(5)
The Collector	107	(2)
The Hunted Jew	109	(5)
A Picture of Man from the Life	114	(2)
The Necessity of Marrying	116	(2)
The Necessity of Unmarrying	118	(4)
The Forsaken Fair	122	(5)
Betty John	127	(18)
Part II. WITCH TRIALS
Introduction	131	(8)
An Abstract of Mr. Perkins's Way for the Discovery of Witches	139	(3)
The Sum of Mr. Gaule's Judgment About the Detection of Witches	142	(1)
Bernard of Batcome's ``Guide to Grand Jurymen''	143	(2)
Trails of the New England Witches
The Trial of G. B. at a Court of Oyer and Terminer, held in Salem, 1692	145	(8)
The Trial of Bridget Bishop, alias Oliver, at the Court of Oyer and Terminer, held at Salem, June 2, 1692	153	(9)
The Trial of Susanna Martin, at the Court of Oyer and Terminer, held by Adjournment at Salem, June 29, 1692	162	(10)
The Trial of Elizabeth How, at the Court of Oyer and Terminer, held by Adjournment at Salem, June 30, 1692	172	(5)
The Trial of Martha Carrier, at the Court of Oyer and Terminer, held by Adjournment at Salem, August 2, 1692	177
A Further Account of the Trials of the New England Witches
A True Narrative, collected by Dedat Lawson, relating to Sundry Persons afficted by Witchcraft at Salem Village in New England, from the 19th of March to the 5th of April, 1692	183
Remarks of Things more than Ordinary about the Afflicted Persons	193
Remarks concerning the Accused	194
A Further Account of the Trials of the New England Witches, sent in a Letter from thence to a Gentleman in London	195
A Trial of Witches Before Sir Matthew Hale At Bury St. Edmunds, 1664	199
Part III. AMUSING ACTIONS AT LAW